Russians Throw Party Mocking Lynching Of White Man In Blackface

We typically associate anti-black racism as being an exclusively American trait, so much so that we forget its pervasive impact worldwide.

On Tuesday, at a Russian government research and development office in St Petersburg, an “American costume party” was held, and one of its employees dressed in blackface and bound himself in ropes, depicting the horrific Jim Crowe practice of lynching.

A different employee, Anastasia Storozhilova, 23, tweeted a photograph from the party saying, “Today at work we hanged a black man.”

After the Twittersphere erupted, she deleted the tweet, then her account, and subsequently her Facebook as well. Nonetheless, the damage was already done.

Speaking to Russian press, Storozhilova tried to explain that the racist stunt was just a simple reenactment of old American movies. Nonetheless, the image of four white people smiling while pretending to hang a fifth white person in blackface was undeniable.